Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] devres: Switch to use dev_err_probe() for unification

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 05:41:33 EST


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:39:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 19:58 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

..

> > That way it would be obvious that the error code is never changed and
> > it will always return -EINVAL. Otherwise you have to look up the
> > function definition of dev_err_probe().

And to this, it's a common pattern in some cases, esp. when you have a chain of
the similar calls and you want to simplify the code (see CCI accessors in
Video4Linux2 as an example). So, I also don't think it's something unusual.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko